Car-fender



C. 0. FIRST.

CAR FENDER. APPLICATION FILED SEPT.30. 1920.

Patented June 28, 1921.

UNITED STATESH PATENT, OFFICE.

cAn o. Fms'r, or MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

CAR-FENDER.

Application fi1ed.$eptember 30, 1920. Serial No. 413,701.

To all to hom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, CARL O. Fins'r, a. citizen of the United States,residing at Meadville, in the county of Crawford and State ofPennsylvania have invented certain, new and useful Improvements inGar-Fenders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to fender devices employed upon railway cars,street cars, trolley cars,and the like, and has for one of its objectsto simplify and improve the construction and increase the efficiency andutility of devices of this character.

Another ob 'ect of the invention. is to provide a device of thischaracter that will follow the track when the car is traveling on curvesand around street corners.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this characterwhich may be readily adapted without material structural change to carsof various forms and.

sizes.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described andthen specifically pointed out in the claims, and in the drawingsillustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a conventional street carwith the improved fender applied, and partly in section.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the improved fender, detached. 7

The improved fender comprises a supporting frame 10 preferably of metalof suitable strength and converging at the rear into a single rod 11,the latter having a ball 12 at its rear end.

The frame 10 is formed with spaced sides in parallel relation and with aforward portion at right angles to the sides, the for.- ward portions ofthe frame sides being bent downwardly as at 13 to bring the forward endsrelatively near the tracks, represented at 1 1-.

Supported from the side members of the frame 10 is a transverse frame.15 having downturned ends/terminating in bearings 16 to carry flangedtrack engaging wheels 17, the bearings having Suitable oil reservoirs,indicated at 16.

. Attached to the frame 10 is a plurality 0 metal strips or ribs, 18,extendinglongitudinally of the frame and constituting the platform orface of the fender, the ribs followin the contour .of the framelO. a

ising from the wheel carrying frame 15 1s a tubular standard 19, andslidable in the standard is a pin or plunger 20, the latter carrying anantifriction wheel or roller 21 in its upper end adapted to engage acurved bearing plate 22 attached to the under face of the car body, aportion of the latter being represented at 23. The pin 20 is held fromrotation in the standard by a pin 20 and slot 20 A spring 2 1 isdisposed within the stand ard 19 and bears beneath the plunger 20 andmaintains the wheel 21 yieldably in engage ment with the bearing plate22. l Attached to the car body 23 rearwardly of Specification of LettersPatent. Patented J 11116 28, 1921.

its forward end, is a bracket device formed 7 ings to engage the ball 12on theframe member 11.

Thebearings'for the ball 12 are beveled'outwardly as shown at 27' and28, so

that the fender frame and its attachment and the car body 23 will havefree play relative to each other.

. By this means the fender device is flexibly coupled to the car andwill readily adapt itself to changes in grade, and the curvatures of thetrack, withoutwcramping.

One of the improved fender devices may be attached to the rear of thecar, if required, to become effective when'the car is moving rearwardly.

The coacting members 19 and 20 with the wheel or roller 21 and spring24, serve as shock absorbers to prevent the car from rocking abnormally.I r

The preferred embodiment of the invention is disclosed in the drawingsand set forth in the specification, but it will be understood thatany'modifications within the scope of the claims may be made in theconstruction, without departing from the pr mciple of the invention orsacrificing any of converging. to the rearv and adapted to be swinginslyattached at the c erg g per tion to a car body track engaging Wheelsconnected to sa1d frame, a plural ty of continuous slats connected tosaid frame and" extending longitudinally thereof, a standard carrying abearing Wheel adapted to engage the under face of the car body andmeans, for yieldably' supporting said standard from the fram t 2. In anapparatus of the class described,

a bracket device adapted to be attachedto' a car body, a fenderswingingly coupled to .said bracket, track engaging Wheels connected tosaid fender, a tubular standard supported by said fender, a plungeroperating

